Members of an unidentified armed group abducted Saleck Ag Jiddou, the director of Coton, a community radio station in Ansongo, a small town in northern Mali’s Gao region, and Moustapha Kone, a Radio Coton presenter, on November 7.
The journalists were driving to the city of Gao at the time with two other professionals.
One of the other two in the vehicle, Naata community radio reporter Abdoul Aziz Djibrilla, was killed when the gunmen opened fire on the car, RSF said in a statement.
The other, Harouna Attino, a journalist with Alafia, another Ansongo-based community radio station, was wounded, the watchdog said.
"The continuing silence of the Malian authorities and regional bodies a month after the abduction of these two local news professionals is very worrying," RSF said.
RSF called on Malian authorities "to take charge of this matter and to do everything possible to recover" the two missing journalists.
The watchdog said their abduction brought to four the number of community radio reporters in the hands of kidnappers in the West African nation.
In the past few weeks, the families of the two journalists abducted last month have been told to pay ransoms of four million CFA francs (approximately $6,500) for their safe return, according to RSF sources.
Mali, which has been ruled by the military since 2020, is ranked 113th out of 180 countries in the world press freedom index drawn up by RSF.
Correspondents from a number of foreign media have been forced to leave, go into exile or remain silent because they are unable to work.
Since 2012, the West African nation has been plagued by jihadist groups and Tuareg separatists, who have taken up arms against the central government despite a peace agreement signed in 2015.
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